hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones. you're watching the context on bbc news. the effects of uk's storm henk — as well as areas under water, there are power cuts and disruption to travel. sport and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, here's paul scott. hello, from the bbc sport centre let's start with what was an extraordinary opening day in the second cricket test between south africa and india, with the hosts bowled out forjust 55 in cape town. mohammed siraj took six wickets as india skittled the hosts out in a little over 23 overs. the tourists were then dismissed for 153 themselves before south africa closed on 62—3 in their second innings, captain dean elgar dismissed twice on the opening day of his farewell

test. staying with test cricket, australia are looking to complete a 3—0 series whitewash as they take on pakistan in the final test in sydney. pakistan got off to the worst possible start on day one, losing two wickets inside the first two overs — josh hazlewood and mitchell starc doing the damage. but the visitors did recover, muhammad rizwan hitting two sixes on his way to a top score of 88. australia eventually bowling them out for 313, and the hosts ended the day six without loss. novak djokovic�*s 43—match winning run in australia is over after he was beaten by alex de minaur in the united cup quarterfinals in perth. de minaur, the world number 12, took full advantage of an out of sorts djokovic, who's been struggling with a wrist injury, taking the first set 6—4. de minaur showed few nerves in the second as he eventually closed out the match 6—4.

it's djokovic�*s first loss in australia since the 2018 australian open. i think i will be ok, to be honest. but it did have quite an impact. particularly on the forehand service, but again, i don't want to spend too much time talking about it and taking away credit from victory. he was very solid, as he always is. well, australia won that quarterfinal 2—0, ajla tomljanovic beating natalija stevanovic in the second match of the tie 6—1, 6—1. the hosts will face either greece or germany in the semifinals on saturday. a defeat too for naomi osaka in the second match of her comeback at the brisbane international, losing to karolina pliskova. but as britain's emma raducanu continues her comeback tomorrow, she's received the news

that she won't have to qualify for this month's australian open — she's been given direct entry into the main draw. our tennis correspondent, russell fuller, explains. she was only about six spots outside the main draw, not with her actual ranking, which is 301, but with the protected ranking of 103. that reflects where she was when she left the tour in late april to ultimately have three operations, two on her hands, one on her ankle. as long as you are away from the two of the six month and able to use this protected or special ranking. so enough players have withdrawn, including today, lauren davis of the united states with a shoulder injury. her loss is emma's gain. she doesn't need to worry about qualifying. she is directly into the main draw for the championships which begin on a

which begin a week on sunday. rory mcilroy says he would be open to playing in a liv backed competition if golf�*s controversial tour became more like cricket's indian premier league, taking up a smaller window in the calendar. he says it would sound like fun if they could replicate the format because, in his words, "you are working within the ecosystem". merger talks between the pga tour and saudi arabia's public investment fund, which financialy backs liv, are continuing. and that's all the sport for now. the darts world championship final is under way at alexandra palace — can 16—year—old luke littler go all the way? it is 1-1 it is 1—1 against the world number one luke humphreys. japan investigators are searching for the flight recorders from a passenger plane which was involved in a crash at one of tokyo's main airports yesterday. officials say the black box from the other aircraft in the collision, a coastguard plane, has already been recovered for examination. our transport correspondent,

katy austin, has more. these are the shocking images of the plane engulfed in flames yesterday. the hundreds of passengers on board and the crew escaped, but five people in the coastguard aircraft it collided with lost their lives. today, a transcript of air traffic control interactions around the time of the crash has added some detail to how events unfolded. here's where it happened. tokyo's haneda airport. at 5.a4pm local time, the japan airlines plane, an airbus a350, was granted permission to land. a few seconds later, a coastguard plane carrying aid for earthquake victims was ordered to stop at this holding point, c—5, safely away from the runway. but once on the ground, the airliner was in a collision with the smaller coastguard aircraft. that was at 5.47pm, according to the original timestamp on this video. you can see the fireball that erupted and the plane continued down the runway in flames. this passenger, taken by one passenger shows the terrifying scenes on board. now, the plane came to a halt

here and then the 367 passengers got out using emergency slides seen in this phone footage. as i said, a transcript of air traffic control exchanges has been released today, and bbc verify has also obtained audio of these conversations around the time of the incident — for example. now, most of the sound, as you can hear, is very unclear. but from our analysis and the transcript, something important emerges. there's nothing to suggest the coastguard plane seen in this archive video was given permission to enter the runway, leaving the question of how it ended up there. the aircraft could have crossed a red stop bar, a series of red lights across the taxiway. very unusual if that was to happen. did they hear a take—off clearance for another aeroplane and mistook it for themselves? or perhaps did dtcc actually clear them to line up on the runway?

that will come out in the investigation. we have found information that suggests the series of lights at the relevant holding point may not have been working, but experts point out there are other visual cues like painted markings. this is the wreckage of the coastguard plane. when it came to the evacuation from the passenger plane, japan airlines says the announcement system malfunctioned so cabin crew were left telling people what to do with a megaphone and their own voices. but some see the evacuation as a remarkable success. all the circumstances were conspiring against any degree of success for the crew. this was an accident on an arriving aircraft at high speed with literally seconds notice. there are emergency situations where pilots are able to brief the cabin crew to prepare, that was not the case this time around. japanese authorities have begun their investigations into what led to the crash that killed five people and the uk's air accident investigatio.

accident investigation branch said this afternoon it will send inspectors to tokyo to help because the airbus' engines were made in the uk. the japanese government is stepping up the emergency response to monday's earthquake, which is now known to have killed at least 64 people. we've been seeing just how extensive the damage actually is. this is the coastal town of suzu — the sheer force of the quake here flattened homes and dumped boats in the streets. rescue teams have been searching collapsed houses. japanese prime minister, fumio kishida, says the number of military personnel involved would be doubled to two thousand. our correspondentjean mckenzie is in the region and travelled close to the epicentre. we finally arrived in the town of wajima three days after the earthquake. and this is close to the epicentre, and it is by far the most destruction we've seen. a fire broke out here during the earthquake, and it spread to the houses and the stalls.

this used to be an old market place, and the people in the town have told us that the flames could be seen from all around. you can see that much of the area is still smoking. walking around the side streets, and so many of the old wooden homes have completely collapsed. but most people have now left this town. they took those very early warnings to flee for higher ground because of the tsunami that was forecast. and they haven't been able to return, either because their homes have been destroyed or they are structurally unsafe. but people are returning here to search for their relatives who they think might still be trapped under the rubble. because three days on, they still don't know. it has taken some of the search and rescue teams nearly as long as us to reach here. these search dogs only arrived here this morning. there has been a huge delay in searching for survivors, and the teams are now going one by one to each of these collapsed wooden houses to search for them.

but they don't know if anyone is inside here. their searches aren't based on any information, they've told us. and so this is an incredibly slow process and this is a critical time. uk, storm henk. one person killed in his car — tree fell on it. high winds dtisrupted travel and thousands of homes lost power. almost 300 flood warnings are still in place in england, scotland and wales. phil mackie has the latest. it is not looking good for ian harris. this is the fifth big flood since he moved in in 2016. this level of flooding used to be called a 50—year event. now it is happening annually. it's becoming pretty frequent. it never used me like this. it is getting worse and worse. the expected peak in worcester tomorrow will get very close

to the record set four years ago. sometimes you get a sharp peak and it drops very quickly and it can go often a day or so. other times it can really stretch out over one or two weeks. this looks like a longer stretched out one. it is not going to go down quick, i don't think. ian's well prepared. he has lived here for awhile. paul wasn't so lucky. he hasjust moved here and that is his car. it's probably a write—off. we have got flooding alarm system that i've now learned. i have just recently moved into a new block of flats, just over here. it went off on sunday evening. so i moved the car, this is where i was advised to move it. i kept an eye on it over the course of yesterday. as you can see overnight it has got worse. this was all caused by storm henk which has cost one. which has cost one life. a man whose car was hit by a tree in gloucestershire. though there were many lucky escapes and brave rescues, too. a three—year—old and her mum. like this one in birmingham.

he is going to fall into the bridge. "please, get my baby of the car. get my baby out of the car, she is only three or two", i don't know what she was shouting or babbling. i'm a father, i have got kids. it isjust instinct. i had to do something. there are still hundreds of flood warnings in place and a severe one on the river near tenby in pembrokeshire. an earlier severe warning in the river in northamptonshire has been removed. back in worcester, they are dealing with the fourth flood since october. there are lots of flood defences along the severn but many have had to do the work for themselves. this family built their own flood wall and it is working well. this is becoming a familiar scene for people in worcester, but too familiar? these sorts of big floods didn't used to happen nearly as often and now they seem to be happening nearly every year. the expected peak care isn't until tomorrow night, the expected peak here isn't until tomorrow night, by which time the river may come close to the record high

from four years ago. for those trying to keep water out, it would be a worrying 2a hours. phil mackie, bbc news, worcester. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. bbc news — bringing you different stories from across the uk. oh, dear! kezia is 17 months old. she's thriving. when she was born, times were tough for her mother, alice. so when her midwife delivered a special basket full of items, it meant the world. it was such a relief to not have to worry how i was going to afford everything, that she had somewhere safe to sleep, but also that so much care and thought had gone into putting this basket together. the moses project began life in 2016 on a kitchen table. run by a local church, it's grown and grown. this year it's provided 200 moses baskets packed full of essentials from baby grows to toiletries and some little luxuries, too. we support families that

are facing hardship, maybe from a workless household, refugees that have come into the country and don't have any other family support. for more stories from across the uk headed to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. a mediaeval cemetery has been unearthed near an airport runway in cardiff. the 70 graves found have provided a rare glimpse into life in britain 1,500 years ago. rebecca morrelle reports. uncovering a mediaeval mystery. just outside of cardiff, archaeologists have discovered a graveyard they think is 1,500 years old. the bodies, buried so long ago, are giving an insight into a period we know little about. each one of these is a grave, and the team have excavated 18 so far, but they think there could be more than 70 at this site.

now, they're all aligned in the same position, running from east to west. and in some of them the skeletons are flat on their backs with their legs outstretched. but in others, like this one over here, the skeleton is in a really unusual crouching position. why this is isn't clear. were burial practices changing over time? or was there something else marking these people out as different? the skeletons are being carefully excavated and they're already providing clues about who these people were and what they did. we have some teeth that are very worn in kind of a funny way. that might indicate the use of teeth as tools, maybe for textile work, leatherwork, basketry, and where they're pulling something through their front teeth. that is glass. a shard of fine french glass has just been discovered. probably the rim from a cone beaker, so which would have looked - like an ice cream cone.

a really nice find. it's just one of an array of artefacts, from fragments of pottery, perhaps from north africa, to a tiny carved peg. this little object is manufactured from animal bone. could be a peg for fora gaming board. it suggests people were coming to the cemetery to meet up — the living and the dead existing together. they are burying their dead, but they're also undertaking other forms of activity and social practice, including eating and drinking and feasting. the items unearthed in the cemetery suggest that the people were of a high status. the next step is to work out exactly who they were. archaeologists hope their excavation will reveal much more about the mediaeval way of life that's remained an enigma for so long. rebecca morelle, bbc news, cardiff. let's speak to summer courts, a phd research student at reading university and osteoarchaeologist working on the fonmon project.

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passed down where bones form a bit differently. that's one of the ways we can detect family units. we can look at health overall looking at his skills as if someone has arthritis, which changes your born quite a lot. diet we can access through looking at stable isotopes in the teeth, and also looking at where someone comes from, can be done through the teeth. an age and sex are determined by the shape of the pelvis, the shape of the skull for sex, and for age, with the children, the development of the skeleton and for adults to the dta and where of this cousin. interesting. and why this particular. do we not know as much about as others? fix, particular. do we not know as much about as others?— particular. do we not know as much about as others? a few reasons. the resources for — about as others? a few reasons. the resources for this. _ about as others? a few reasons. the

resources for this. and _ about as others? a few reasons. the resources for this. and others - about as others? a few reasons. the resources for this. and others is - resources for this. and others is that in wales and western britain especially, the human remains and sites are poorly preserved and. and thatis sites are poorly preserved and. and that is where this site is incredibly preserved and gives us a good look in detail that we are not able to access and any other way. absolutely fascinating, we will see what we learned, thank you for coming on the programme summer courts. were looking out at the world of music. last year — 2023 — was the most successful year ever forfemale musicians in the uk charts. data from the british phonographic industry revealed that women were at number one for 31 out of 52 weeks. the body's chair yolanda brown, told me streaming has allowed female artists to broaden their reach.

women have been making music for many years and really impacted —— impact for the music and it's lovely to see it in the figures. the streaming figures have doubled, double the figure of 2018, so you're seeing people are finding music more and unearthing music more and getting into enjoy more, which we have seen in the past year. an update now on the darts, potential sporting history and often in london. this is teen darts sensation luke littler. atjust 16 years old, he's become the youngest person to reach the final of the world darts championship. he is already the youngest person to reach the final of the world darts championship, an extraordinary achievement. littler secured his place with a comprehensive 6—2 win over fellow brit rob cross, but littler�*s toughest test may

still be ahead of him. at this very moment, he's playing against world number one luke humphries, who's looking to extend an 18—game winning streak with the world championship title. he is world number one and looking to win the world championship. he wants to spoil the party for luke leffler. it has been an extraordinary revelation in darts. the viewing figures have shut up and the interest has absolutely shot up in what has been happening there. that is take a look out before he got to, here we go, before he got sick tonight and alexandra palace will stop this is him as a toddler, a magnetic darts were there. he started young and has been successful. playing against people are far older than him for the vast

majority of hisjunior are far older than him for the vast majority of his junior career. couldn't start until he was 16, obviously still 16, and what i read he has had in the final. in his previous matches he has gotten off to a five start and taking the lead in many of them but not this one. it was luke littler one centre —— one set luke humphreys one set. so, in the first to seventh set is the winter so we will keep you across the details. pupils at schools and england having to change their exam courses because of our aac. some unable to use the workshop labs and spaces since september. teacher said it is unfair and the government says it can't meet exceptions on exams. our

education correspondent reports. this is the raac. it is roofing the whole building. students at shoeburyness high school in southend have had to change their gcse subject from design and technology to 3d design because they cannot get to the machinery they need. it is very, very difficult, partway through a course to be told you suddenly don't have an option you had before. we would never want to do that but what we were looking at was the least worst option for them. one of them is in an it room so it's not even an actual woodwork room. these a—level students are still hoping for special consideration in their exams. we found out about the closure at the start of year 13. - it had such a shocking effect on us. i cried, because it was very, like, worrying. l we were using stanley knives and, like, rulers, instead of the laser cutter. which obviously makes it printed difficult. it

which obviously makes it printed difficult. ., ., , . which obviously makes it printed difficult. ., . , which obviously makes it printed difficult. ., . difficult. it would affect us for the rest of — difficult. it would affect us for the rest of our _ difficult. it would affect us for the rest of our course. - it's notjust going to be like a little problem, it is a big problem. hadleigh high school in suffolk has had to close all of its science labs and fill the playground with two—storey temporary classrooms. they are cold, they are echoey, it's not how we teach at this school. what help do you want to see for students taking their exams this year? i would like the exam boards to understand that our children have not had the specialist provision that every other child they are competing with in the exam season has had. grades being assessed on a case—by—case basis or schools and given— case—by—case basis or schools and given a _ case—by—case basis or schools and given a blanket percentage increase on their_ given a blanket percentage increase on their results. the given a blanket percentage increase on their results.—

on their results. the “oint council has said there has _ on their results. the joint council has said there has been - on their results. the joint council has said there has been an - on their results. the joint council - has said there has been an extension in deadlines. the department for education said in a statement... st leonard's catholic school in durham says dealing with raac has been an extremely challenging experience forfamilies, students and staff, and it is in discussions to ensure its students are not disadvantaged. nicola cook wants special consideration for her son, who has his a—levels coming up at the school. he said to me the other day that, "oh, mum, i'm kissing my a—stars goodbye, i'm not going to be able to get that now." it is frustrating. we need the government to come together and to really understand what the impact of this is. the government says the 231 schools confirmed to have raac in england will get funds for refurbishment or rebuilding, but teaching unions

say it should set out a clear timeline for getting things back to normal. hazel shearing, bbc news. thanks for watching. hello. after the wind and rain from storm henk on tuesday — wednesday brought more heavy downpours in places. not helping the ongoing flooding situation, check the latest flood warnings on our website or on your bbc local radio station. and there is some more rain to come as we head through tonight. still some showers around, but some clearer spells starting to spread from the south—west as the night wears on. temperatures will drop away down to around three, four or five degrees in quite a few spots. one or two places could get quite close to freezing. so we head in to thursday with low pressure still in charge to the north that will bring some showers. and then this little weather system here threatening to bring more unwanted rain into southern parts

of the uk. so across northern england, northern ireland and scotland, a lot of clouds and bits and pieces of showery rain still very windy in the northern isles. then a slice of sunshine across north wales, parts of northern england, the north midlands through the afternoon, but to the south of that cloud will be gathering and here comes our next area of rain. now, this is going to deal a glancing blow, really, but it is going to slide along the southern counties of england, perhaps getting into south—east wales and then moving up across the london area and into east anglia through thursday evening. this rain falling on saturated ground so could well cause furtherflooding issues. it may turn quite windy for a time down towards the south as well. that weather system swirling its way off into the near continent on friday. still some showery rain across eastern scotland and eastern england. sunshine and showers out towards the west. temperatures a little bit lower by this stage, 6—9 degrees. and then as we head into the weekend, low pressure will at long last loosen its grip. high pressure will be

building across the uk, still possibly one or two showers, but a lot more in the way of dry weather. i'm sure that'll be good news for many. however, we will also start to introduce some colder air. so saturday looks a little bit like this — still some areas of cloud, a few bits and pieces of showery rain around, but broadly speaking does turn dry up brighter some spells of sunshine once any early morning mist has clear, but those temperatures 6—9 degrees at best. and as we look ahead to sunday, those temperatures may drop back even further. lots of dry weather after any early mist and fog and it stays mostly dry but chilly into next week.

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